EasyAccess HOD Product Launch Delivers Most Advanced System for Distributing Hotel Description Information.Business, Technology and Travel/Hospitality Editors PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2000 Best Western and Cendant Cendant Corporation was a New York-based provider of business and consumer services, primarily within the real estate and travel industries. Although the company was based out of New York City, the majority of Cendant's headquarters employees were located in Parsippany-Troy Hills, Hotels On Board as First Customers WizCom Meets Industry Need for Easy and Efficient Hotel Property Information Updates Cendant Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the Group, a unit of Cendant Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CD), today announced that the Company's subsidiary, WizCom International, Ltd. ("WizCom"), a leading supplier of reservation and information management systems for the travel industry, officially launched EasyAccess HOD to streamline the distribution system for hotel description information. EasyAccess HOD is a revolutionary Web-based application See Web application. that allows hoteliers and hotel companies to easily update hotel description information simultaneously on the four Global Distribution Systems (GDS GDS Global Distribution System GDS Google Desktop Search (Google) GDS Goodie Domain Service (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) GDS Guards ) through one single-point-of-entry. Best Western Hotels and the Cendant Hotel brands have already agreed to implement EasyAccess HOD for their information management systems. Working closely with hoteliers, WizCom developed EasyAccess HOD in direct response to the industry's demand for a more efficient and effective method to distribute hotel description information to all four GDSs and ultimately the Internet. EasyAccess HOD's unique feature automatically formats and distributes the hotel's descriptive content to the specific data requirements of each GDS. EasyAccess HOD uses easy-to-use "point and click" drop down menus as its primary format. "EasyAccess HOD is proof of why WizCom's culture of innovation and customer focus work so well. The development of EasyAccess HOD is a direct result of WizCom's technological expertise and industry experience combined, most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , with feedback from the industry on the type of product they need to compete in the marketplace," said Flo Lugli, President of WizCom. "With EasyAccess HOD, WizCom strengthens its reputation as the definitive source of innovative distribution solutions for the travel industry." "WizCom's EasyAccess HOD makes changing or adding new information about our hotel properties to the GDSs a much easier and more efficient process," said Charles Charles, archduke of Austria Charles, 1771–1847, archduke of Austria; brother of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. Despite his epilepsy, he was the ablest Austrian commander in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars; however, he was handicapped by Ryder, Director of Reservation Services for Best Western. "The combination of advanced functionality and ease-of-use allows Best Western to focus on managing our business without getting burdened with a mess of technical details." Some of the key benefits to EasyAccess HOD include: -- Web-based application. Customers are able to update hotel property information from any Internet-accessible computer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No software is required to load onto customers' computers nor is there a need to maintain dedicated leased lines. -- Easy point and click navigation. EasyAccess HOD is designed with a Windows-style look and feel. On-screen drop down menus and guided navigation assist users in building property data easily and logically. -- Chain level and property level descriptive information. Customers can establish master data for a chain and update separate property information from the master data with a simple click of the mouse. -- Comprehensive property data. EasyAccess HOD goes beyond the minimum descriptive requirements established by HEDNA and other industry committees to allow hotels to enter focused marketing information, including packages, incentive programs and marketing campaigns. "Rather than getting caught-up with complicated technical codes and complex data entry, EasyAccess HOD will allow customers to focus on the quality and accuracy of data transmitted to the GDSs," said Mark Jacobsen, Wizcom Product Support Manager. "It is as simple as a point and click of your mouse." EasyAccess HOD is a part of WizCom's EasyAccess Plus suite of products designed for the hotel industry to manage distribution more effectively and cost-efficiently. WizCom International, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Cendant Corporation (NYSE:CD), is a leading global provider of electronic reservations processing and information management systems for the travel industry. WizCom provides its hotel, car rental, and tour / leisure travel customers with innovative, flexible and cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. electronic distribution and e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. solutions for the Internet, GDS and / or other travel reservation systems. Established in 1987, WizCom has an extensive customer base with more than 90 hotel companies and over 25 car rental firms operating in more than forty countries worldwide. Cendant Internet Group is aggressively pursuing Internet, broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). and wireless related convergence opportunities for Cendant with the objective of leveraging its businesses in the areas of travel, real estate and direct marketing, as well as its proven core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
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